Collected Dataset / HRS_Wave_7

The War Baby (WB) sub-sample consists of people who were born in 1942 through 1947, were household residents of the conterminous U.S. in the spring 1992, who, at that time, did not have a spouse or partner born before 1924 or between 1931 and 1941, and were still household residents at the time of the first interview in 1998, and their spouses or partners at the time of the initial interview or at the time of any subsequent interview.

The interviews were conducted face-to-face.

The core questionnaires included sections directed at: demographic background, health status, functional limitations, housing, family structure and transfers, employment of respondent, job, disability, retirement plans, cognition, net worth other than housing, income, health and life insurance, and widowhood.

Social Security earnings and benefits records were obtained from Medicare record, also using the Employer Identification Number (EIN), they collected pension plan information from respondents’ current and past employers. Finally, healthcare utilization and other data were assessed from the Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare.